Russian Prince. French diplomat, religious writer and translator. He was born in a notable Georgian aristocratic family of Andronikashvili in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia. During the Russian Civil War in 1920, he, in the arms of his mother, fled to France, while his father was arrested by the Bolsheviks and later shot during the Great Purge of 1937. He graduated from the University of Paris in 1940 and St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute of which he subsequently became professor in 1944. He later worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as an English and Russian interpreter to President de Gaulle.
Russian Prince. French diplomat, religious writer and translator. He was born in a notable Georgian aristocratic family of Andronikashvili in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia. During the Russian Civil War in 1920, he, in the arms of his mother, fled to France, while his father was arrested by the Bolsheviks and later shot during the Great Purge of 1937. He graduated from the University of Paris in 1940 and St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute of which he subsequently became professor in 1944. He later worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as an English and Russian interpreter to President de Gaulle.
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